AM Announcements - September 04

AM Announcements
September 04, 2009

1. Today is Day 09.

2. It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.

3. Calendar items for this week:

Friday: September 04
No events at this time

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 9/07 - Labor Day Holiday - No School
b. 9/08 - Staff Meeting
c. 9/09 - Meeting with Mr. Mike Larson - Primerica - Interested individuals
d. 9/10 - Cub Scout Sign-up Night 7:00 PM
e. 9/11 - All teacher web pages updated by this date
f. 9/15 - Gateway Meeting - 3rd and 5th grade students and parents - 6:00 PM

5. Thanks to all for making Picture Day run so smoothly and ahead of schedule. I'm sure you'll be asked, "When will the pictures be back." As soon as we know we will notify parents.students who have paid for pictures. This is the teacher responsibility.

6. I went checking computers, monitors, speakers and copiers this morning and found 2 computer(s), 5 monitor(s), 0 speaker sets and 0 copier(s) left on overnight.

7. Be sure to remind your students at the end of the day that there is No School on Monday.

8. Remember to update your web page by 9/11.

9. The first interim progress report is due to go out in next Tuesday's Monday Packet. This is the expremely short portion of the form an takes a minute to do for each student. All that is necessary ios a brief sentence about how they are doing.

10. Remember to get with the individual you are doing a peer observation on and schedule a time for it.

11. Teachers in grades K-1 who need the yellow luggage tags for their bus riders back packs should see Ms. Powell. The new one have come in.

12. To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), "The Call of Cthulhu", first line

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary